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The Statned Glass at Mordury Manor 
House, 
By GEORGE BAILEY. 
FIRST ARTICLE. 
still retains in its windows numerous fragments of 
stained glass; for the most part they are heraldic, 
but ieee are besides several remnants containing figure subjects, 
e.g., ‘The Scourging of our Lord,” a “‘ Nativity,” partly lost, and 
the first six Months of the Year. = is to these last that we 
desire to call attention. They are represented on the three plates 
which accompany this article. The originals are six inches in 
diameter ; that was too large a size for this journal, so, to bring 
them conveniently within its pages, we have reduced them 5-r12ths. 
It will be seen on referring to the plates that the glass is the 
ordinary enamel glass-painting of the fifteenth century, consisting 
of a deep brown outline, heightened by bright yellow stains, the 
figures being strongly defined by deep outlines, and there is a 
shading of lighter brown in parts. These six circles are now 
placed in the staircase window —a sketch of which is also given. 
Of the latter six months there remains not a vestige, but 
these are quite complete ; they are interesting, firstly as present- 
ing to our eyes costumes characteristic of the months by 
an artist of the fifteenth century, and, secondly, as_repre- 
sentations of costumes worn during that period. Strutt, 
writing on this century, says:—“At the close of the 
fifteenth century the dress of the English was exceedingly 
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